Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Brace yourself. Before the month is out, they will be knocking at your door, insisting that Apple’s iPad tablet―for sale on or about April 3 (pre-orders started March 12 at 5:30 pm PST)―is just the gadget that will solve a multitude of IT problems while, simultaneously, giving your IT strategy a leg up . It…
That didn’t take long. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has yet to ship its much-hyped iPad tablet, but Elance has reported there’s already demand for iPad application developers ahead of next month’s launch. The iPad rode of a broader wave of demand for mobile tech skills at the online contract services site. While Web development continues to…
Smartphones are invading the enterprise record numbers especially now that several models have a price tag of under $100 (with carrier subsidies). The question for IT is whether they’ll get ahead of this trend or struggle to catch up (as they did with WiFi, laptops, and removable storage devices). “People don’t treat smartphones the same…
The use of gadgets such as smartphones and other hand held devices may make employees more productive, but they haven’t made the workplace more polite, a new survey suggests. More than half (51%) of CIOs report an increase in instances of poor workplace etiquette resulting from more frequent use of mobile electronic devices, according to…
The iPhone needs a new battery. HP needs an acquisition. Nokia needs a new design. These suggestions and more were detailed in a whitepaper issued by ABI Research analysts who listed what ideas they’d implement if they were in charge of some of the companies they cover. HP would do well to consider buying or…
Most of us remember the admonishment from the heady days of the 1990’s Internet craze that “content is King.” Like most trite bits of purported wisdom from those days it has since been disproved, and in its debunking lies a lesson for savvy CIOs. It is difficult to think of an industry more tied to…
Call Apple’s iPhone the wireless world’s rock star. In 2007, in the U.S. alone eight million sold. In 2008, in the first three days after release, the high speed 3G iPhone sold a dazzling one million units. But feast on this paradox: as far as enterprise is concerned the iPhone is a dud. Apple highlights…
Research In Motion (RIM) will roll out a touch-screen model of its BlackBerry smartphone later this fall, thrusting it into direct competition with Apple’s popular iPhone. RIM said on Wednesday the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. RIM’s…
Research In Motion (RIM) is preparing to launch the long anticipated touch-screen version of its BlackBerry smartphone, according to an official promotion e-mail from U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless. The device will be known as the BlackBerry Storm 9530 and will feature “global capabilities”, Verizon said, without providing specifics. It also did not give an exact…